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    firewire: Move fw_card kref functions into linux/firewire.h · fc5f80b1
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    When writing a firewire driver that doesn't deal with struct fw_device
    objects (e.g. it only publishes FireWire units and doesn't subscribe to
    them), you likely need to keep referenced to struct fw_card objects so
    that you can send messages to other nodes. This patch moves
    fw_card_put(), fw_card_get() and fw_card_release() into the public
    include/linux/firewire.h header instead of drivers/firewire/core.h, and
    adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fw_card_release).
    
    The firewire-sbp-target module requires these so it can keep a reference
    to the fw_card object in order that it can fetch ORBs to execute and
    read/write related data and status information.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
    Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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